Join foster parents Tim and Wendy as they discuss foster care. With humor, insight and Christian faith, they share their everyday ups and downs as a foster family hoping to adopt. What exactly are the pros and cons of foster parenting. Get your questions answered about the foster and fost adopt system while following Tim and Wendy’s journey through the process. What’s it like to deal with the system? Are all social workers really jaded? How intrusive is it on your life? All these questions and more will be answered from Tim and Wendy’s real-life perspective. Watch out! You may find yourself thinking about fostering or adopting too!
We’ve started a new therapy program called Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). We’ve only been to two sessions with the girls but have found that this “proven” program really works. If you’d like to start using some of the skills we’re learning try using this acronym
Our 4th of July (err Independence Day) celebration brought about a chance encounter that we had hoped to avoid. It’s a foster parent nightmare come to pass.
What’s a disruption? We give our thoughts on a fost-adopt placement that ends up getting reunified. This is not something we have experienced ourselves so we’d love to hear listener feedback.
We bemoan the bad wrap foster parenting tends to get in the media. We also offer up a review of the movie “Losing Isaiah” starring Halle Berry and Jessica Lange.
Stay tuned for the end of this episode. We have a special treat for all of our listeners. You’ll want to hear it.
We discuss the very real problem of social workers who do not return calls. We offer advice and suggestions for getting them to call back with out suggesting a death in your home.
We had three days in court this week. For once, there was an outcome. Listen for a play-by-play.
“We receive enlightenment only in proportion as we give ourselves more and more completely to God by humble submission and love. We do not first see, then act; we act, then see. It is only by the free submission of our judgment in dark faith that we can advance to the light of understanding. And that is why the man who waits to see clearly before he will believe never starts on the journey.” – Thomas Merton
Our extreme measures to get Linda to stay in bed have garnered some odd reactions from her. A relational benchmark was finally reached for Tim and Andrea. Also, we’re approaching (hopefully) another court date and we discuss what it will mean for our family.
What to expect at monitored visits. What are they? How often do they happen and why? We share why we prefer to be the monitors even though it exposes us to an awful lot of awkwardness with the birth family.
Also:
Wendy’s favorite new podcast: “Creating a Family: Talk about Infertility and Adoption” with Dawn Davenport
We had some movement on the mediation process and it’s not looking so great. So with that in mind we review for ourselves, why we’re interested in post-adoption visits in the first place.
by Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher.
by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky. Watch out there is a return of the “Listener Corner” theme song!
